Some leading museums of the former USSR have special collections known to museum workers as "spetsfunds". But they do not preserve special masterpieces or rare artworks. Those artifacts that were "lucky" to be stored there should have been put far away from people's eyes, and at the worst to be destroyed.

We in the National Art Museum of Ukraine are convinced that now the dialogue about heroes and heroic is actual at its most. That is why in the project Heroes. An Inventory in Progress the critical view on the "heroic heritage", sometimes shocking, that is stored in the funds of the Museum, is important.